As humanity prepares for a new era of space exploration, NASA and other space agencies are planning ambitious missions to ...

The scientist has outlined the 'potentially devastating and irreversible long-term impacts' of unknown organisms in space ...

Efforts to manage invasive alien plant species in forests could be held back by a continued reliance on chemical methods, ...

Scientists are calling for a lunar quarantine facility where samples from Mars, the Moon, and beyond would be examined before being brought to Earth. They warn that even a tiny alien microorganism ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

The absolute nightmare scenario becomes reality when a synthetic rubber gasket completely dissolves, triggering the ...

The California Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) has issued a mandatory recall for a marijuana flower product from Alien Labs due to contamination with Aspergillus spp., a potentially harmful mold.

Researchers have looked at how particular microbes from Earth would fare in conditions like those of Mars, the moon, and the ...

Contamination is the quiet problem that can make a recycling or organics program look good on paper but struggle in the real world. Contamination is any nonprogram material in the wrong cart—food and ...

Even though it was obviously a dude in a suit, the Xenomorph in the first Alien film is downright terrifying. Due in part to its limited screentime, creating an atmosphere full of tension, and its ...